Alexandra HarrisAlexandra Harris is an acclaimed writer, literary critic and cultural historian. She was educated at the University of Oxford and the Courtauld Institute and worked for ten years at the University of Liverpool. She is now Professor of English at the niversity of Birmingham. Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper (2010) won the Guardian First Book Award, a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize. Weatherland: Writers and Artists Under English Skies (2015) was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize, longlisted for the Wainwright Prize and adapted for BBC Radio 4. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Harris reviews for the Guardian and other newspapers, writes for exhibition catalogues, works with artists and lectures widely. Read More Read Less